Spoken word recognition by Latino children learning Spanish as their first language

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 227-249

  Hurtado, Nereyda ^a   Marchman, Virginia A ^a   Fernald, Anne ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34247246367     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000906007896     Document Type: Article

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